HTML Error Tag and VBSEO?

Well, as many of you SEOer know, HTML is somewhat important, Vbseo is a proud example of seo to the max, but i just did a html validation and it has many error, link here
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ww...doctype=Inline

So technically, html is not that important anyway?

I have read articles that say that MSN likes (X)HTML Valid pages, whereas Google does not.

I have no really strong opinions on that theory, but do try to make my sites (X)HTML valid.

Result for http://www.nzboards.com/ - W3C Markup Validator (you may need to refresh a couple of times...phpadsnew has one or 2 that are invalid, but 90% of the time, it validates.)

Originally Posted by maternity.com

Well, as many of you SEOer know, HTML is somewhat important, Vbseo is a proud example of seo to the max, but i just did a html validation and it has many error, link here
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ww...doctype=Inline

So technically, html is not that important anyway?

Why not throw Googles main page in that there validator

Result for http://www.google.co.jp/ - W3C Markup Validator

it has been said that google has not moved to valid code due to the more bandwidth it would take up on their search and home pages. i don't buy it, but there was an article about it somewhere a while back.

That said, google suggests WELL FORMED markup.
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Good point - this has been bugging me for a while now..... The vBSEO.com templates will be re-done with the vB 3.6 release.